Pocket Thesaurus
Synonyms of shorten
trim, cut back, cut, abbreviate, minimize, lessen, reduce, slash, curtail, cut down, shrink, compress, chop, clip, edit, abridge, elide, excerpt, condense, contract, snip, dock, lop, retrench, bob, blue pencil, boil down, cut to the bone, make a long story short, put in a nutshell